Results 941-960 of 1,253 for speaker:John Crown
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
John Crown: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business seeking the attendance of the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection in the House today to outline a timeline on the critical issue of pension reform in light of the data which came out today from the Pensions Authority. Can anyone imagine how absurd it would be if the Stated enshrined, as part of its policy, an enforcement that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
John Crown: The whole system is insane.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
John Crown: I will call for a vote to ask the Minister for Social Protection to come to the House to address the matter because this is a national emergency. It may not look like an emergency beside the next election but it certainly will be one.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)
John Crown: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
John Crown: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business to ask the Minister for Health to come to the House to deal with a very urgent matter which I do not believe will wait for two weeks until we are back - namely, the exact timeline for the provision of an early or expanded access programme for the drug sofosbuvir, or Sovaldi, an anti-hepatitis-C drug. In the world of modern medicine we have lots...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)
John Crown: I understand the Minister may be downstairs and that I will have an opportunity to speak to him. Therefore, I will not press the amendment today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Mental Health Services: Mental Health Reform (23 Oct 2014)
John Crown: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their good work. Reference was made to the shortfall in the number of psychiatrists. Even if the shortfall were addressed, where would we fit in an international league table of psychiatrists per head of population? For most specialties in medicine we are way off the bottom of the charts. I am sorry to catch the witnesses on the hop and I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
John Crown: I am conscious of the time constraints under which the Minister is operating and I thank him for agreeing to take supplementary questions. I have been asked by several entities to obtain some clarity around the welcome announcement he made with regard to some of the new hepatitis C drugs available to the subgroup of patients who are facing into the extremely severe prospect of impending...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)
John Crown: I am very grateful to the Minister for that.
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)
John Crown: I welcome the Minister. I wish him the best in his efforts to try to reform the health service. The Minister does not need my advice in this regard but I urge him to remain firm and steadfast in respect of the national children's hospital. The decision has been made and the hospital should be built. As I have written and stated on multiple occasions - and I mean no disrespect to anyone...
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)
John Crown: I apologise, but Senator Naughton has mistaken this for a matter on the Adjournment. Could the Leas-Chathaoirleach check the schedule, please?
- Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)
John Crown: No, we would encourage people to join different parties.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)
John Crown: It is timely that we would ask the relevant Minister, who, in truth, would probably be the Taoiseach, to come to the House at some stage for a broad-ranging debate on political reform. At the time of the Seanad referendum last year substantial and welcome attention was paid not only to the need to reform this House, but a broader debate on political reform. We have been promised by the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)
John Crown: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)
John Crown: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. During her tenure in health, she has been one of the most productive Ministers with whom to do business and I thank her for all her efforts. I broadly welcome the Bill. There clearly is a need for an enhanced degree of scrutiny, regulation, oversight and professional input into the regulation of those various incredibly critical...
- Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)
John Crown: Is the Minister of State referring to the ophthalmologists - the medical doctors - as opposed to the optometrists?
- Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)
John Crown: The ophthalmologists are not the ones who are regulated. They are worried about regulation.
- Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)
John Crown: I appreciate that.
- Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)
John Crown: We need to know now so that we can submit amendments on Committee Stage.
- Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)
John Crown: I thank the Minister of State.